Motivational Quotes

Freedom

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Freedom

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Silesius, Angelus

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Kingsley, Charles

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Luxemburg, Rosa

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Washington, George

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Wordsworth, William

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Adams, John

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I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Ewer, W. N.

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Hill, Christopher

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

25.

No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Forster, Edward M.

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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

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So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Browning, Robert

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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

George, David Lloyd

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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Covey, Stephen R.

38.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Stone, I. F.

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It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

42.

Freedom exists only with power.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Epictetus

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

Cioran, E. M.

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They want to be free and they do not know how to be just.

Sieyes, Abbe

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik